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Again, 'Eldritch' is an Alignment, which means it can encompass multiple monster types.

Right, in my system Undead are a form of the Eldritch, and Fiends are a different set of the Eldritch, and Aberrations are a yet different set of the Eldritch. And it's important that they're all Eldritch, but only the Undead are 'Necromancy'. Fiends are 'Infernalism' and Aberrations are 'Abyssal'.

OTOH, the Kami (spirits of harmony who act as ambassadors between Man and Nature) are Primal/Divine; Eidols (cosmic principles of order and law) are Divine/Arcane, and the Deva are just Divine. And then most Fey are just Primal, and most Elementals are just Arcane.

No, although most Aberrations are in fact Eldritch. Like I said, it's an Alignment chart - Primal opposes Arcane, and Eldritch opposes Divine. Divine can include both Good and Evil deities, while Eldritch represents those beings who oppose the well-ordered structure of the Celestial...

So in general, yes, Warriors are Combat+, Experts are Exploration+/Social+, and Mages are "let me check which spells I prepared today". But the Eldritch and Divine casters and warriors, for example, have a good amount of Social moxie, and the Cleric, Druid and Sage have impressive...

Does that work?

Lemme try this:

Mechanically, Warriors all get "Full BAB", Extra Attacks, Fighting Styles, and fighting-related features; Experts all get Expertise and skill-related features; Mages all get "Full Casting" and magic-related features.

Yes, but it made more sense for me to focus Roles on narrative role rather than mechanical role. Therefore Warrior, Expert, and Mage. This gives me the following (Role x Alignment) grid:

Again, 2/3 get swapped in order to prevent some minor weirdness from getting a Feat right after a subclass.

Thus, all Warrior/Expert/Mage-themed stuff would happen at 1/5/9/13/17; then, all Natural/Arcane/Primal/Eldritch/Divine/Mystic-themed stuff happens at 2/7/11/15/19 - which is actually approximately how the current progression works!

Also, since I'm riffing on 4E's "role and power source" thing (with 'power source' renamed to 'alignment'), another way to put the rhythm would be: Level 1 - Role-flavored features Level 2 - Subclass Stuff Level 3 - Alignment-flavored features Level 4 - Feat

Yep - that is, in fact, exactly the rhythm of a tier, with tier 1 as the sole exception (swapping subclass and class specialization, so that the first subclass level can happen after the class has all the necessary prerequisites to use it)

If I did change subclasses to 3/7/11/15/19, I feel like it brings them in too close to the Feat levels. I could see going either way, maybe?

Yep! I was working with exactly this, but specifically switched to subclass at 3/6/10/14/18 because it let me put main-class improvements all on odd levels (except for 3), and I kept the first subclass at 3 because I think I understand the intuition that a player should have 2 class levels under...

Oh! And in case this is the sort of thing that excites you, I've built a fully functional character builder, with a Discord-connectable dice roller built in:

This might be a bit ambitious, but... I seem to have created something akin to a Pathfinder-esque rebuild of 5E/OneD&D. It's not finished yet, but I'd love commentary on it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfDeoZE2vwCrOBEuE07RhWtpzOtLTr8Kmy0UGypzpU4/ Some major changes: "Skill Points"...